[Bradford] Unknown filesystem "nfts"

[John Robert Hudson]

Hi Mike

If it is for backup and storage purposes using, for example, rsync, then Ext2 
is fine. If you expect to be accessing files on it to view or edit, then Ext4.

John

On Saturday, 5 June 2021 23:45:36 BST Moanin via Bradford wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I purchased an external Seagate Basic drive for backup and storage
> purposes. The enquiries I made prior to purchase, repeated on a few
> sites, was that if it works on 'doze it will work on Linux. To date I
> haven't found anything to contradict that.
> 
> I made the mistake of buying from CCL. Once upon a time you could ask at
> the counter and they would respond with "We don't officially support
> {your OS if it's not 'Doze} but off the record and as a Linux user
> myself (or call across to a Linux user to help) I'd suggest . . ."
> 
> Nowadays it's "if yer don't got 'Doze we'ze don't want ter 'noze". Brick
> wall. Hence my last ever purchase from CCL has already taken place.
> 
> My laptop picks up nothing. My Pc says "Unable to access "Seagate Basic"
> and puts the Unknown filesystem "nfts" on the next line.
> 
> It's fairly obvious I can format this drive but what is the recommended
> file system to format it to? Do I need to leave the 1MB "boot" bit at
> the beginning?
> 
> The use purpose is to first of all back up the laptop so I can reinstall
> the OS and add a little reconfiguration, than rinse and repeat with the
> PC after installing a bigger hdd. Thereafter use it as a regular backup
> drive including the rsync backups for the VPSs.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Mike
> 
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